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15 Feb ’12
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came across this open source project that might interest a few people
27 Aug ’14
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Yeah, I often feel like this:
You can use the recycled plastic for the bubble-deck concrete construction that I was talking about last week as well.
15 Feb ’12
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this might help with that
A newly discovered plastic-eating bacterium may hold the key to safely degrading millions of tonnes of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics dumped each year.
Scientists have long searched for a biological agent that could effectively degrade PET's tough crystalline structure.
To date, they had only found a few species of fungi that could partially break down the plastic.
But a team of Japanese researchers, led by Dr Shosuke Yoshida from the Kyoto Institute of Technology, have discovered a new species of bacteria that produces a never-before-seen plastic-eating enzyme.
27 Aug ’14
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Awesome! My only concern is that we release the bacteria or it makes it into the general public and finds something tastier to munch on. Nano-engineering and bio-engineering can be short-sighted due to lack of anticipation for unforeseen circumstances. /endrant
With that said, I would love to see an organic solution to this. I've long pitched the idea of algae as a long term solution to carbon sequestration.
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